The name of more than 25 country's currencies including Australia, Canada, and Taiwan
What is the dollar?
Earth's only natural satellite, maintaining an average orbital distance of roughly 238,855 miles.
What is the Moon?
The heavy-spiked King of the Koopas who repeatedly kidnaps Princess Peach across the Super Mario franchise
Who is Bowser?
He spread Christmas cheer as Buddy in Elf and warned San Diego to "stay classy" as local news anchor Ron Burgundy in Anchorman.
Who is Will Ferrell?
Phonetically identical to a gymnast's no-handed cartwheel, she surrendered her siren song to a sea witch in exchange for human legs.
Who is Ariel?
Confirmed at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider in 2012, this mass-giving particle was famously—and controversially—nicknamed "The God Particle" in a 1993 book title.
What is the Higgs boson?
Introduced digitally in 1999 and as physical cash in 2002, this currency is shared by more than 20 member states.
What is the euro?
Maintaining Low Earth Orbit at ~400 km altitude, this modular laboratory has been continuously inhabited by humans since November 2000.
What is the International Space Station (ISS)?
"Prepare for trouble, and make it double" opens the iconic, rhyming motto recited by Jessie and James, operatives of this Pokémon stealing organization.
Who is Team Rocket?
After '90s slapstick hits like Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore, this box-office star earned major dramatic acclaim in the 2019 thriller Uncut Gems.
Who is Adam Sandler?
A legendary warrior, sharing the Chinese name for the Magnolia flower, she disguised herself to take her father's place in the Imperial Army
Who is Mulan?
To catch these nearly massless "ghost particles," scientists built giant detectors like Super-Kamiokande in subterranean mines and IceCube under a kilometer of Antarctic ice.
What is a neutrino?
Official currency of the United Kingdom, it is the oldest currency still in continuous use today.
What is sterling (or the pound sterling)?
Launched by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957, this aluminum sphere became humanity's first artificial satellite.
What is Sputnik?
This flying roboticist with a reported 300 IQ serves as the primary adversary to Sonic the Hedgehog.
Who is Dr. Eggman (or Robotnik)?
Outside of his Lonely Island comedy music tracks, he starred for eight seasons as the Die Hard-obsessed NYPD detective Jake Peralta on Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
Who is Andy Samberg?
Sounding identical to the standard probability distribution and the logarithmic unit of sound intensity, she looked past a monstrous exterior to find true love.
Who is Belle?
They say "third time's a..." this, making it a fitting name for the delightful third flavor of quark discovered in 1974.
What is the charm quark?
Meaning "round object" in its native language, this currency is issued by the BoJ (A bank more colloquially known as "Nichigin").
What is the yen?
Deployed from Space Shuttle Discovery in 1990, this landmark space telescope orbits Earth above atmospheric distortion.
What is the Hubble Space Telescope?
The Gerudo warlord who seeks the Triforce of Power to conquer Hyrule in The Legend of Zelda.
Who is Ganondorf?
He traveled back to the 1960s as international man of mystery Austin Powers and gave voice to a swamp-dwelling, swamp-defending green ogre.
Who is Mike Myers?
In sports parlance, a long-shot underdog team that makes a miraculous, unexpected tournament run is named after this fairy-tale heroine.
Who is Cinderella?
Because particles containing it had unnaturally long lifetimes, physicists gave this quark a name synonymous with "odd," "unusual," or "bizarre."
What is the strange quark?
Historically used in France and Belgium, this currency remains the active unit of exchange for a mountainous land-locked country.
What is the franc (Swiss franc)?
Deployed to orbit the Sun-Earth L2 Lagrange point in 2021, this flagship infrared observatory has opened new horizons for astronomy, cosmology, and exoplanet science
What is the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)?
The passive-aggressive AI testing manager who operates the Aperture Science facility in Portal.
Who is GLaDOS?
Followed by a legendary career of standup and hit comedies like Trading Places, Coming to America, and The Nutty Professor, this movie star possibly saved SNL from cancellation through improved ratings.
Who is Eddie Murphy?
Named after a blossom often paired with green tea, this spirited heroine balked at royal tradition to demand a marriage born of love, not law
Who is Jasmine?
Discovered via cathode ray tube experiments in 1897, this fundamental spin-1/2 lepton carries a single negative elementary charge and governs chemical bonding.
What is the electron?
Translating directly to "people's currency," this is the official money of the PRC.
What is the renminbi?
Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto form this collective group of satellites orbiting Jupiter, discovered in 1610.
What are the Galilean moons?
The parasitic, hive-mind alien species that assimilates all organic life in the Halo franchise.
What is the Flood?
She wrote the iconic screenplay for the 2004 teen movie Mean Girls and created the Emmy-winning sitcom 30 Rock, starring as Liz Lemon.
Who is Tina Fey?
Also known as "Sleeping Beauty", she shares her name with both the Roman goddess of dawn and Earth's northern atmospheric lights.
Who is Aurora?
Essential to Einstein's Nobel Prize, this massless particle acts as the fundamental carrier of the electromagnetic force.
What is the photon?